The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1887-02-17
CURRENT ropIos.

picnic.
RUSSIA has forbidden the expectation Of
horses.
PsnoLuuM has boon found in Cantral
Belgium.
.MIsYIr suits to hire are advertised in
New York.
STURGEON skin makes durable boot aud
shoe leather.
THE leading dentist in 1T. Petersburg lie
an American.
CANADA is building her first steol stear,-
er at Toronto.
CiaARErrE paper is said 10 be made in
Il3 mills In Spain.
RERPEsT-sKISis coming into fashion Ms n
covering for books.
sr. I0SAcE, Mich, has q doctor who is
also IN undertaken.
IT is predicted that the new Boston court
house will cost t5,00o00o
CHURCHILL has gone 20 Algiers 10 re-
store break in his hoalth.
oBLIoAToRY military service in Belgium
is to be made thirteen years,
AxAS In Pennsylvania has Just sold his
wife and four children for so.
JoEL CHANDLER HARRIs does all his lit
erary work with "a goose quill.
MRs. LnIIE PRoK, Of olalla, Ore, has
killed seven bears this winter
Nom people are eremated these days In
railroad cars than In cromatorios.
A LOUISIANA fMo.) man had tho lilo
coughs for fourteen consecutive days.
The Limerick municipal council has re-
fused 20 celebrate the Queens jubilee.
ACASkpIAS says that the word toboghan
IA properly pronounced with the second o
long. -
OLD settlers In Dakota say this has been
the seycrest winter ever experienced
there
THE children Of Apaches imprisoned in
Florida are being educated in Pennsyl,
vaniA.
coSrRAcrs for carrying the British mails
20 America will expire at the end of the
month.
The ghost OF stonewaii Jackson, mounted
on his war-horse, has lately been seen In
virginia,
1T is now In order Tor some Chicago muir.
derer TO arranso--if ke can--ts be hanged
byproxy.
adopt tho Loo American rife fer the use
Of her army.
LARor numbers Of cedar railway ties are
being shipped from Alpena, Mich, by rail
20 New Mexico.
The question in Europe Ia not how 10
avoid war, but how 10 avoid the response.
biiity for causing IT,
FAsnioNABiE churches In New York arc
overrun with what the sections call "rcg
ular pow spongcrs.n
TWENTY-FIVE Indians have Just entered
the Institute ut Hampton, Va, from the
Dakota Reservation.
A vEiN Of marble one hundred feet wide
has been discovered on the road from
Bodie 10 Carson. New
TnE State o. Delaware has not single
Republican ofiicial--thc only State In the
Union that can say SO
POPULAR subscription has been started
In Arizona 10 purchase a gold-mounted
sword for General Miles.
DAS RICE, the veteran circus clown and
temperance lecturer, has again fallen into
bad habits In Cincinnati.
AoE and It's inflrmitics are the cause Of
the retirement OF President Pickard from
the Iowa State University.
PKTRIFIED human being Is said 10 have
VNNif hAstoftItA III " cave ON 0Nnu NOUN
tain, Tom, q few days ago
CLHyELASD, o., has 96i( square miles Of
territory; Cincinnati, "a; Chicago, 80; New
York, AZ; and London, III.
We are paying annually s7b,ooO,Ooo in
pensions, and II the proposed new bills be-
como laws II will reach sl450O00o0.
A Bri.L has been introduced into the
Pennsylvania Legislature providing for
tho retirement Of judges on pension.
GILBERT, tho English librcttist, has not
seen one Of his plays acted for fourteen
years, owing 10 excessive nervousness.
GENERAL SHERMAN would sink sea-coast
forts below the surface OF the water, and
In this way make them almost impregna.
BILE.
THE Philadelphia Hem says never Judge
man by the umbrella he carries. Nine
times out Of ten II belongs to somebody
else.
gussIB ToooooD was acquitted Of muir.
der on her second trial at Dcs Moines
which she regards rs just too good for
any thing
THR German post-ofice authorities are
making extensive experiments with
view to connect the whole OF Germany by
telephone.
The largest coal mine in the vicinity OF
Huntsville, Mo-, has been op ned on the |
cooperative plan, the men paying one cent |
q bushel for the use Of the plant
STANDARD time il being abandoned in
some Michigan cities and towns, and II is |
thought the Legislature OF that State
win repeal the law that legalized its adop-
ton.
LEADvnLH has the champion toboggan
slide. II runs from the top OF Mosquito |
Pass, through the city to the Arkansas
river, near Malta, distance Of fifteen
miles
The largest theatcr in the world is the
new opera-house in Paris II covers near.
ly three acres Of ground; its cubic mass
is A,as-,oOO feet; It cost about 100, 900
francs.
SAN FRAscIsoo is greatly interested in
the subject Of coast dcfenses. They have
plan for the defense OF the Golden Gate
that would call for the expenditure OF ST..
66S,150
WISKELMIER is the name Of giant who
Is now on exhibition in London. Heis eigh.
feet and nine inches in height, and is there
fore more than a foot taller than Chang,
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